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Lance is taking everything he has learned throughout his career (both in & out of the ring), and is entering the latest chapter of his career: his new role as booker in the Prairie Wrestling Alliance (in Alberta, Canada). To find out more information on how you can see Lance’s shows & the talents from the Storm Wrestling Academy, log onto www.StormWrestling.com. As Storm gears up to take the next step, "The Chairman Of The Board" asked Lance where he feels the next great bookers of the business will be coming from. "The problem is the industry isn’t even looking for bookers. I hate the term ‘writer,’ I hate the term ‘storyline.’ And I think that the more people we have running the industry or the creative direction that didn’t have wrestling background I think is bad. I think the next person who will probably step up & actually be a booker is Hunter (Triple H) once he retires. I have great hopes that once he retires & steps out of the ring, he will be an even bigger asset, because is a little bit more old-school I think. Anytime I had conversations with him or watched him (as far as his work), he seems to have a similar view on the business as I did: that still, at the end of the day, there needs to be some serious wrestling involved. He’s been involved in some good angles that I think were largely directly by him. He obviously is someone that is going to end up in power, and can be very good at it. I think that the WWE could be/should be looking at perhaps finding people that worked in the business that had good minds (Tommy Dreamer) & giving them a developmental contract, where they go to Florida & book there (have two or three people down there/brainstorming & working on booking skills), so they have people to replace the people they have got now when the time comes. I think that is one of the biggest things th at is going to be missing…The more we have writers & people growing up on the ‘Crash TV’/30-second skits of RAW & iMPACT, the less really-sound understanding minds that really understand the business (Paul Heyman/Jim Cornette) will be hard to come by."
"Your Home Of Wrestling Radio" has taken the time this month to look back at one of the most-memorable Pay-Per-View’s in professional wrestling history, the 1999 ECW November To Remember PPV (which took place at The Burt Flickinger Center in The Mayhem’s hometown of Buffalo, NY). Storm teamed up with his Impact Player tag team partner, Justin Credible, along with Rhino against Raven, Tommy Dreamer, & The Sandman in the night’s main event. This Pay-Per-View also featured the Taz’s last match in ECW prior to leaving for the WWE, the next chapter in Mike Awesome & Masato Tanaka’s legendary feud, & New Jack’s infamous dive from the top of the basketball hoop. Mosh asked Lance for his memories of working that event, when The Impact Players were two of the top dogs leading the wrestling world. "It’s funny…I never looked that far ahead…I always treated it like a job. Every match I went out there, I just tried to do the best I could. Every promo I had to cut, I made it as good as possible. I always lived in the moment, and didn’t look at the impact of this or the significance of that…I always stayed focused on doing things well." Lance added that his focus was not on taking Taz’s place and/or his spot, but delivering for the fans during that night at The Flickinger Center. On looking back at his memories from Buffalo: " Every minute backstage was fun in ECW, and Buffalo was one of our favorite cities, because it was one of our nicer buildings. We had legitimate lockers with showers & access to a weight room downstairs. Everybody loved working Buffalo . The only downside to it was Paul loved the building too so he would almost never leave. We always did our promos & backstage stuff after the show, so (for a TV taping in Buffalo) we’d be there until 3 or 4 o’clock in the morning, because Paul would be doing all of his post-show promos & stuff (including those with Dawn Marie)." And what he got from the spirit & drive of ECW: "It was great. The drive & the hard work…to me, that’s how I always was. Paul & I shared a similar passion, which is I why I think we loved working together so much. Anything that people might have complained about the time in ECW, none of that even compared to the joy being around a group of people that just wanted to work hard & make what they did mean something. Everyone was just so driven to the same goal making this little engine succeed….the little engine that could. It was such a rewarding time, because you really felt you were a part of something & you were making progress. Because it was ‘The Island of Misfit Toys,’ it really was everyone’s chance to show that hard work mattered, and it’s gotta rest on a bit of a legend that will live forever that taking pride in your work & busting your ass can pay off."
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